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Ubuntu 7373-1: Exim Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Exim security advisory details a critical issue that can lead to denial of service or remote code execution vulnerabilities. Update your system.
Exim could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Exim could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially

crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

- exim4: Exim is a mail transport agent

Details:

It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain memory operations.

A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Exim to crash, resulting in

a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update exim Ubuntu

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.10
   exim4                           4.98-1ubuntu2.1
   exim4-base                      4.98-1ubuntu2.1
   eximon4                         4.98-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
   exim4                           4.97-4ubuntu4.3
   exim4-base                      4.97-4ubuntu4.3
   eximon4                         4.97-4ubuntu4.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7373-1

CVE-2025-30232

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7373-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service update exim Ubuntu

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exim4/4.98-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exim4/4.97-4ubuntu4.3

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